performance

His biggest point is “do not optimize prematurely”. This is a sentiment I’ve heard a few times. Fred Brooks emphasizes it in Mythical Man Month, and Eric Raymond harps on it a bit in Art of Unix Programming. Another point he makes is how using “weird language syntax” like double […]

I recently worked on improving performance in a labor scheduling application. The app was originally designed to load all the employees at one time in one large chunk, processing and stuffing the data into various places as needed on startup. This all worked fairly well on average stores with 50-100 […]

I've been tasked with speeding up a web 2.0 application based on ExtJS 2.2.0 that contains several routines that take up quite a bit of time and, because IE6's javascript processing engine is less than stellar ((In other words, it sucks pretty bad.)), I needed to find a way to "speed things up".